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... parsec , and both are outside the metric system . What's more , even the new extension of the system can't reach them . The light - year is the distance that light travels in one year . This is about 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 9450 ...
... parsec , and both are outside the metric system . What's more , even the new extension of the system can't reach them . The light - year is the distance that light travels in one year . This is about 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 9450 ...
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... parsecs away . There are only thirty - three stars , out of a hundred billion or so in the Galaxy , closer to our sun than four parsecs , and of these only seven are visible to the naked eye . There are many stars beyond this - far ...
... parsecs away . There are only thirty - three stars , out of a hundred billion or so in the Galaxy , closer to our sun than four parsecs , and of these only seven are visible to the naked eye . There are many stars beyond this - far ...
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... which we can make a reasonably full census of stars , dim ones and all . Thus , within five parsecs ( 16 light - years ) of ourselves , accord- ing to a compilation prepared by Peter Van de Kamp 184 ADDING A DIMENSION.
... which we can make a reasonably full census of stars , dim ones and all . Thus , within five parsecs ( 16 light - years ) of ourselves , accord- ing to a compilation prepared by Peter Van de Kamp 184 ADDING A DIMENSION.
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